Ken Umansky, partner in charge of the technology group at Arnold Worldwide, Boston, part of the Arnold Worldwide Partners unit of Havas, was named president at the McLean, Va., office of Arnold, succeeding Rick Britton, who is retiring.
After a brief interlude in the materials laboratories of an industrial electronics company, Torraca spent the next 20 years in charge of the technology and materials courses in the engineering faculty at Rome University.
There, they told Per Hellstrom, a cautious Swede who heads the antitrust unit in charge of the technology sector, how their site had been penalized by Google, starting in June 2006, even though its ranking remained competitive on other search engines like Bing and Yahoo.
FRANK QUATTRONE -- Managing director in charge of the technology group at Credit Suisse First Boston, which became a powerhouse in the underwriting of emerging technology companies in the late 1990's but has since been hit by the dot-com collapse and a scandal over how public stock offerings were sold.
More recently, Ms Mayer has been in charge of the technology giant's location and mapping services, which include Google Maps, Earth, Local and Street View.
"I believe we will remain in charge of the technology for a decently long time and the potential of it to solve many of the world problems will be realised," said Rollo Carpenter, creator of Cleverbot.
"There is an opportunity to make some margin on the unit sales, but that's not the objective here," Andy Rubin, a vice president of engineering in charge of the Android technology, said during a press conference at Google's headquarters here.
But at a briefing by the council, one member, William Reinert, the national manager in charge of the advanced technology group for Toyota's American sales unit, put it bluntly.
Normally, basic innovation is supervised by the corporate research & development center in charge of the general technology R&D, standardization and intellectual property management, which is regarded as a corporate and strategic level department.
With respect to its open innovation, the corporate R&D center was put in charge of the generic technology R&D, standardization and intellectual property management, etc., while concrete products that entered the market were put within the scope of the product development institutes.
John Taverna is in charge of the information technology issues.
